Young People's Rights

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07.27.15 - At age 15, Gita should have been
cramming for math tests and gossiping with friends. Instead, she was forced to
leave her family and the school she attended in the midwestern hills of Nepal
to marry a man eight years older…

07.08.15 - This past winter, a 14-year-old Kenyan schoolgirl found
herself in a desperate situation. After being coerced by an older man into her
first sexual relationship, she discovered she was pregnant and feared she would
be blamed and rejected by her family if she were to reveal her condition…

05.12.15 - The Center for Reproductive Rights and URGE: Unite for
Reproductive & Gender Equity strongly oppose measures that limit teens’
access to basic health care, including several bills being considered by the
Texas legislature…

03.26.15 - On Monday,
March 9, 2015, the forecast for the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas called for
heavy rain and thundershowers—with dangerous flash flooding predicted in the
string of border communities that stretch along the Rio Grande in the state’s
southernmost tip…

11.22.14 - “I was
turned into someone’s wife before I knew what it meant to me,” remembers Rahar
Maya Biswokarma, a Nepalese woman who was married off by her family at age 10.
“All my joy was gone at once.”…

10.07.14 - The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW Committee) recently criticized India for failing
to address human rights violations, associated with child marriage and high
rates of maternal death resulting from lack of access to modern…

10.07.14 - The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child
(Committee) recently criticized India for a wide range of human rights
violations, resulting from the persistence of child marriage and girls’ lack of
access to contraceptive information and services and autonomy…

(PRESS RELEASE) Despite international and local
laws clearly condemning child marriage, South Asian countries refuse to address
this illegal practice which could lead to a projected 130 million young girls
married against their will by 2030, according to a new publication by…

The Convention on the Rights of the Child strongly protects
children’s right to access sexual and reproductive health services and their
rights to substantive equality and nondiscrimination. This fact sheet examines the mutually
reinforcing relationship between the realization of these…